Improved folding chair



UNITED STATES PATENT Trios.

JOHN A. DANN, WILLIAM F. DANN, AND ISAAC N. DANN, OF NEW HAVEN,

` CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEDFOLDING CHAlR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 37,277, dated January 6, 1863.

To all whom it may col/www:

Be it known that we, JOHN A. DANN, WILL- IAM F. DANN, and IsAAc N. DANN, of New Haven, in the county ot' New Haven and State Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Army Camp Chair, which folds com pactly and is easy to carry; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact descrip tiouof the saine.

Said chair is made of oak or other strong, durable wood. The curved legs (marked B in the drawings) are twenty-two and three-fourths inches long, one and three-fourths inch Wide, and three-fourths of an inch thick. The legs C are twenty-two inches long, otherwise same size as B. The arms A are shaped ot' a bent piece, as in the drawings, are twenty inches long, 4one and one-fourth inch Wide, and three-fourths of an inch thick, riveted at each end, with a slot for the flat-headed bolt l to slide in. The standards of' the back F are seventeen inches long, one and three-fonrths inch Wide at the bottom, and five-eighths of an inch at top, and three-fourths of an inch thick, and turn loose ou the ends of the piece K. The back slats, D. are parts of` a circle, four and a halt' feet in diameter, sixteen inches long, ive-sixteenths ot' an inch thick-the top one one and three-fourths inch Wide, the other two, one and one-half inch Wide-and are let into the standards F from the Jfront edge, glued and riveted. The rounds H are sixteen inches long, three-fourths ot' an inch in diameter, and tit tight in the holes of the legs and. riveted through the leg and round.'

The one marked H H passes loose through the inside legs, C, and the rivet is beloWthe hole. The front cross-piece, E, is curved, as in the drawing,is seventcenand one half inches long, one and three-eighths inch Wide, and threefourths of an inch thick, with a pin turned at each end one and onehalf inch long, which turns loose in the hole of the leg B, and is tight and riveted in the hole of the arm. These dimensions are given as proportions of the severa-l parts, not confining the chairs to those sizes. lhe seat is made of good Brussels carpet, or other strong fabric, rolled on the pieces E and K and secured in aus7 suitable manner.

DrawingNo. l shows the chair open, as when used to sit on; Drawing No. 2, as when closed.

Manner ot' closing the chair: Bring the pieces E and K together with a jerk; to open it, place theright hand on the slat D, the left hund on the piece E; raise the right hand with ajerk, then distend both hands.

We clailn- The arrangement of the slotted arms A, the bolts I, and standards F, in combination with the legs B C, with the several parts operating substantially as and for the purpose specified.

JOHN A. DANN. WILLIAM F. DANN. ISAAC N. DANN. Witnesses:

HENRY SMITH, J osnrl B. JEWETT. 

